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Not here, my poor old granddad didn't want to even go to hospital he and we knew it was the end, could he stay at home ? no they insisted he didn't understand and took him anyway, another 5 days of hell for him and he understood alright he was bright as a button right up to the end brain was working fine.

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Now that is one of my pet peeves with the medical profession, particularly in the hospital. That being that the elderly are just assumed to be demented and senile and not understanding what they are being told. I have seen that thousands of times in my career. Some elderly person is being advised of a procedure and the children are called to give consent, and her wishes are ignored. WHY? No one better call my kids for consent on what is being done to me if I am able to give it myself.

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And I also don't think your patronising and personal insult
towards me reflects well on you as admin of a forum.

Attack the ball not the player....

Edited to add......these are your own words Azz.....quote..." I do draw the line at personal remarks being posted on the public forums.."..unquote.

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I have a excellent doctor and yes I do trust them.

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A good point Pats!

I've had bad experiences with doctors in the past - mainly GPs I must add - and that's resulted in my lack of faith shall I say in certain members of the medical profession but equally I've also had bad experiences of the Police!

When I was in my teens I was still a very trusting person; many would say that I was naive and perhaps a little too trusting but it's how I was brought up.

My Dad believed anybody in uniform was to be trusted, and that, to him, included public employees like doctors, nurses, social workers etcetera but Pats, the medical profession let him down.

They promised me faithfully that he would be cared for and they'd find out what was causing his problems but in the end they did nothing and the parting shot to me, sitting at his deathbed years ago, was from his consultant.

He just said "Well, what do you expect with a chest like that?!" and stalked off.

All the people involved in my wife's hip operation at the hospital were very good, as was the paramedic that came out to us that time and I'm very grateful for that but much of what we were told would be explained to us regarding her recuperation at home just didn't happen.

No, I'm truly sorry Pats but I still find it very hard to trust anyone in the way that I once did. stevmk2

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I also remember being told by pats not to buy meds off the internet, without going to a GP how are we to get the drugs we need ? no choices at all IMO

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Julie...I advised that drugs shouldn't be bought off the internet.

If you don't go to a GP...then you self-prescribing....again is that wise?

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Repeat prescriptions I have had for years and will never be off seems to me safe enough to assume I don't need a GPs say so. Besides at least one of my meds are now able to be bought off prescription, actually can be got much cheaper than the prescription cost. So if I ever stop getting the prepaid prescription card I will be sourcing them cheap as I can.

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Prescriptions are FREEfor those of us over 60 Julie darlin' - just hang in there!!!

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Don't you get an annual review of your meds Julie?